{"id":919,"date":"2013-06-10T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/business\/2013\/06\/10\/how-do-societies-avoid-collapse\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:27:22","slug":"how-do-societies-avoid-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/2013\/06\/10\/how-do-societies-avoid-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Societies Avoid Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How Do Societies Avoid Collapse?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/perc.org\/\">The Property and Environment Research Center Blog<\/a>, Friday, June 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Economic research has long been subject to the same pitfall: it lacks a laboratory in which to carry out simple experiments. Unlike sciences such as physics or chemistry, economic data are messy, imperfectly measured, and affected by any number of unknown variables. 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